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A Toolkit on Budget Transparency:
for integrity, openness and sound budgeting
Ronnie Downes
Deputy Head – Budgeting and Public Expenditures
Asian Senior Budget Officials
Bangkok, December 2016
Overview
• Background - Why a toolkit?
• The content and the structure of the toolkit
• Further steps
Background of G20 Anti-corruption Working Group (ACWG): Implementation Plan 2015-16
• “Promoting greater budget transparency and fiscal openness plays an important role in anti-corruption efforts, including by deterring illicit diversions of public money by corrupt officials and promoting good governance”
• “Promoting greater budget transparency and fiscal openness has important links to the G20 resilience agenda, including by fostering greater public confidence in the stability and soundness of public finances.”
• “develop a G20 practical toolkit on budget transparency”
The G20 Context
• Help to self-assess level of budget transparency, and to plan and implement transparency-focused reforms
• Reinforce key messages by bringing together the insights of the international community of budget transparency
• Provide a gateway to resources that are already available across the international community
3 useful roles for a “toolkit”
Structured in five institutional spheres
Budget Transparency Toolkit
Government Reporting
Parliamentary Involvement
Independent Oversight
Openness and Civic Engagement
Interaction with the Private Sector
A Providing useful budget reports
during the annual cycle
B Including the right financial
information in budget reports
C Benefiting from parliamentary
engagement and scrutiny
D Supporting parliamentary
capacity
E Management and internal
control of public money
F Supporting the role of the
Supreme Audit Institution
G Designing effective Independent
Fiscal Institutions
H Making the budget accessible to
the public
I Using open data to support
budget transparency
J Making the budget more
inclusive and participative
K Opening up public contracting
and procurement
L Revenues and expenditures in
resource endowments
M Infrastructure governance for
integrity, VFM and transparency
Structure of the Chapters
Colours and icons for easy navigation within the document.
Quotes from publications of leading institutions in the area to highlight the relevance of the topic
Overview of the chapters content
Structure of the Chapters
Topic summary
Suggested Starting Points
Country examples and “Signposts” to international standards
Some benefits of this approach?
• Over-riding principle: simple and user-friendly
– While remaining faithful to underlying standards
• Comprehensive coverage of budget transparency
– First time all of these diverse aspects have been “signposted”
– Toolkit: Roles of diverse institutions, sectors
– Purposes: transparency, accountability, anti-corruption
• Practical guidance to put transparency into practice
– Country examples – links to Code, Principles, PEFA etc
Further steps
• Project has benefited from much feedback
– International organisations
– SBO networks
• Final document to be published in early 2017
– Will be maintained / updated on collaborative principles
• How to use?
– Self assessment by countries, institutions
– Education, capacity development of practitioners
• OECD Open Government tools